Total fascist dystopia. Biff in BACK TO THE FUTURE II. There will be no easy way out of this I'm afraid.

For probably very different reasons, I actually agree with this. I understand the feeling and share the hope but thinking all this deeply, deeply f**d up state of things is going to be magically solved once good ol' Uncle Joe gets into office* seems incredibly naive to me.

*Also, unlikely to happen. At least in a peaceful, normal transition. Trump's been saying it loud and clear for anyone that wants to hear it.

I have to wonder what the whole RNC was about. It seemed to mirror the DNC's goal; talking about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris getting into the White House. The difference is obvious; one wants it, one fears it. But I didn't hear very much about why Trump should be re-elected in either case.

President Murder took SEVENTY MINUTES last night, bleeding over into the 11 o'clock news, standing there saying how nice America is now*; how terrible Joe Biden is and will be as president; and that's about it. Nothing about his plans for the future, no specifics about all the things he promised America in 2016, none of it.

He did mention about promises made and promises kept. Well, it surely seems that the promises he made have yet to be realized, so maybe that's what he meant. He promised a corona vaccine before the end of the year, or sooner (so... in the past?) He bragged about every good thing, real or not, in America, and took the credit for it. The usual bullshit, let's be honest.

The Democrats talked of the future, what specifically Trump had done wrong, and how they were going to address and correct it. The Trumps (and one or two other speakers) talked about how generally Trump was perfect as a president, how he needed to be elected to Make America Great Again Again**, and a lot about how bad a person Joe Biden is, and how bad a job he'd done as president already. 

The biggest issue is that it's easy to see what the campaigns are going to do in the next 70 days; but while we know what will happen if Biden is elected (or at least we have some concrete ideas), we received ZERO information about what the Republicans are going to do on Nov 4.

That was really all the information that I needed.

* BLM still necessary, hurricane relief down south, corona, unemployment, being despised in the international community - holy hell, ENOUGH WINNING ALREADY!

** That is literally something that one of the Trump daughters said.

I believe!!!!*

I’m not sure I see a way out of future incidents where riots demanding an immediate arrest occur after a black man is shot by police.   We give police the right to use violence as part of their jobs.  The only way to make charges stick is to do a thorough investigation to show the violence used exceeded the situation, and that takes days.  I don’t think Biden or any President can shrink that timeline.  

Maybe just go one stage further and say: this is us versus them! We good, they bad! Red or blue, baby!

You might be right, but he's got a couple that jump to my mind without ever mentioning Trump. Working on reducing education costs and making public education free. Working on fighting Big Pharma to lower medical costs and prescriptions fees. Putting a priority on reducing effects of Global Warming. Redoubling efforts on combating Covid and flatting it until a vaccine can be developed. Getting real communication between blacks and whites, and the tangent of "refunding" police departments and getting the scum out of the police.

And as for Trump... I think all he needs to do is point out what happened under Trump and then vow to undo it and get America's path clean and straight.

America is so fouled up right now, "I'm going to fix America from what Trump did to it" could be all the campaign slogan he needs (not that it's all he'll use...)